On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Reg Clemens wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:55:24 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
>
>> When trying to play video clips from
www.cnn.com, I get the
>> error message
>>
>> Totem could not play mms
>>
>> are there codecs somewhere to upgrade Totem?
>> What about Mplayer?
>
> I have no problem viewing those clips with mplayer.
>
>> I have no idea how to try to use Mplayer rather than Totem
>> in Firefox,- the option to change doesnt seem to be in
>> preferences anywhere... Is it possible to change and would
>> it help?
>
> I simply removed totem.
>
Well, I obviously have removed too much, since I now get
a popup that says
google for mplayerplug-in
one thing tho, i removed the realplay plugins this pkg installs so firefox
can natively use the realplayer nphelix.* plugins, without it, sites like
the BBC wont work when you click on listen/watch
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PLUGIN WARNING
NO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER DETECTED
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Mumph.
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Cheers
Res
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